OTOH, you can use the carcass to make leather jackets and Jello.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2005 6:40:14 am PDT #4166 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2005 6:50:06 am PDT #4167 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And the rest is soup.
Scrappy - Aug 10, 2005 6:53:57 am PDT #4168 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Or glue.
DCJensen - Aug 10, 2005 7:40:25 am PDT #4169 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
or Jell-O!
Calli - Aug 10, 2005 7:45:14 am PDT #4170 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
There's always room for pulverized, freeze-dried, fruit-flavored cow bits! Mmmmmm.
Eddie - Aug 10, 2005 12:10:46 pm PDT #4171 of 10001
Your tag here.
Not to mention the waste on the floor.
...plus the methane buildup in an enclosed area like a spaceship.
::handwaves the science frantically::
It's, um, an alternate fuel source for Serenity... yeah, that's it. Plus, a great buzz once you get past the smell and the random explosions.
DCJensen - Aug 10, 2005 12:34:52 pm PDT #4172 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
...plus the methane buildup in an enclosed area like a spaceship.
Atmospheric cleansing. Hey, the gasses given off by humans have to be dealt with, on a smaller scale...
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 12:47:42 pm PDT #4173 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Plus, a great buzz once you get past the smell and the random explosions.
Can't believe I know this... most of the methane from a cow actually is from when they are chewing their cud. It's more a front end emission and not a back end, as it were.
evil jimi - Aug 10, 2005 3:22:34 pm PDT #4174 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
ETA: Basically, I'm willing to handwave that the buyers had need of an actual herd, for whatever reason, rather than simply meat or breeding material.
Also that "Benny" had a herd he had to get rid of and it was more profitable to smuggle it to another planet than to slaughter there and then.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2005 2:40:58 am PDT #4175 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If we assume ultra cheap and efficient power production and the manufacturing advances that go along with it (and readily available private interplanetary travel and the humongous cities we've seen on the Inner Worlds both support this), it may be that organic goods such as live cattle have a lot more value relative to mechanical ones as compared to our own culture.